Some Hispanic advocacy groups are calling for illegal immigrants to boycott the 2010 Census unless immigration laws are changed. The move puts them at odds with leading immigrant rights advocates and creates another hurdle in the Census Bureau's quest to count everyone in the USA.

Mike Tomlin mixed with the reporters at Raheem Morris' table during a breakfast for NFC head coaches at the recent league meetings, and in a bit of role reversal the Pittsburgh Steelers coach quickly demonstrated a knack for asking a pertinent question. "What makes you think you're ready for such a job?" Tomlin asked Morris, 32, who replaced Jon Gruden as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach in January.

Born in 1964, Ma Yun better known in the Northern Hemisphere as Jack Ma showed little promise as a child in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Physically scrawny, an indifferent student and reared during the disorienting Cultural Revolution, Ma failed college entrance examinations twice. Finally, at age 20, he won entrance into Hangzhou Normal College, a poorly rated institution.

Scandinavian airline group SAS on Tuesday announced a massive overhaul of the company a 40% cut in staff, divestments and a plan to raise 6 billion kronor ($720 million) from shareholders after losses widened in the fourth quarter.

Awards shows and lavish gifts go hand in hand, but this year, the Golden Globes is doing its best to give back. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the outfit that puts on the Golden Globes each year, has teamed up with Stars for a Cause, a non-profit that operates during awards season, to use celebrity connections to boost charity coffers.

or a little more than a year, writer/photographer Shreve Stockton has chronicled her life in Wyoming on her blog, The Daily Coyote, which gets more than 1 million hits a month. Why? She's living with as in keeping in her house a young coyote named Charlie. She photographs him. She keeps a daily log. She adores him. Her new book, The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming (Simon & Schuster), arrives this month.

Crime analysts differ over whether an economic downturn always precedes increasing crime. Since summer, when the first financial giants started to fall on Wall Street, law enforcement officials have been tracking domestic violence and property offenses robbery, burglary and theft for signs of trouble.

The title of Ted Turner's autobiography, Call Me Ted, suggests a familiarity that probably is warranted. After all, how many readers of books (or reviews of those books) are unaware of the man and at least some of his many remarkable accomplishments?